This past weekend was early doe season and my (Andrew) first time hunting with a bow. I did not have too high of expectations until Bryan told me the night I was going out that me and Chad would probably get a deer.
It didn't take long after climbing into the tree stand to see a spike run right underneath me. That alone was enough to get my blood running and my hands shaking. I thought there was no way I could shoot at a deer if I can't even keep calm when I see a deer I am not even allowed to shoot!
Probably 15-30 minutes later a group of three deer were headed through the woods in my direction. It was pretty thick so by the time I saw them they were within 40 yards. The smallest of the three led the group right to me. The second deer in the group was the one I had my eye on for a kill. She was about 20-25 yards away and stared me down for a good 30 seconds. I thought I was busted for sure. She finally put her head down and I drew my bow and waited what seemed like a lifetime for her to turn for a good shot. I took the shot and immediately realized it was hit too far back.
After waiting over night to track the deer Chad and I finally got out at 7am to start looking. We found a blood trail and tracked for a good distance but had to stop looking after a couple hours. I went out by myself later in the afternoon but I had lost most of my hopes of finding it. That is until the miracle tracker Bryan came in. I showed him the blood trail we had found and soon after he started walking well away from the blood trail. I guess he had a good instinct because I got a call a few minutes later that he had found the deer!
Ideally I would have liked my first deer with a bow to have been a cleaner shot, but we did end up finding the deer and no meat was wasted. Good luck to everyone in a couple of days!
5 comments:
Miracle Tracker? Sounds like someone got lucky not following a blood trail! Anyway-Nice Recovery!
I like miracle tracker better than lucky tracker so I'm going to go with Andrew.
Congratulations on your first deer Andrew! I hope you're feeling the fever now. I also hope you start gutting your own deer.
I am going to need help with a couple more.
You forgot to mention that it was 90lbs dressed. And I forgot to mention that I am very dissapointed that my old bow didn't make it in any of the pictures.
Congrats on your first bow kill, Andrew. Shooting a deer on your first time out, sounds like someone else I know. (Aaron). Good luck on the rest of the year.
-BK
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